The Cunning Wife/Fruit Tree Syndrome: Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale" and Seven Arabic Stories.
- Author / Editor
- Al-Garrallah, Aiman Sanad.
The Cunning Wife/Fruit Tree Syndrome: Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale" and Seven Arabic Stories.
- Published
- Neohelicon 42 (2015): 671–86.
- Description
- Suggests Arabic texts not as sources for MerT, but as fellow exemplars of certain similar "universal" archetypes (tree, garden, billet-doux, key). Juxtaposes Arabic tales (some from "The Arabian Nights") with MerT, and organizes stories by tree type (pear, sycamore, palm). Reads the shared archetypes through a Jungian lens, comparing them to the shadow, anima, animus, and persona. Refers to "hortus conclusus" and "locus amoenus" as integral to these archetypal manifestations of a "collective unconsciousness" or "ur-myth."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations